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Specialty Box Office: “Speech” Still Strong and “Cold Weather” Hits

IFC released Cold Weather in one NYC location but saw a promising $14,513 return this Super Bowl weekend. “Weather” is a pickup from last year’s SXSW Film Festival and centers around a former forensic scientist who returns home to Portland to find an ex-girlfriend missing. Writer/director Aaron Katz is no stranger to Independent filmmaking and was nominated at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards for his film “Quiet City.”

Specialty Box Office: “Biutiful” Opening Weekend

With the Oscars approaching, independent films are making aggressive pushes to capitalize on the added award buzz. Roadside Attractions released Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful in 57 theaters grossing a respectable $8,088 average. It will most likely expand the film passed the 100 theater mark this coming weekend in preparation for Javier Bardem’s Oscar nomination. “Biutiful” is Iñárritu’s first feature film directorial effort since “Babel” and is the frontrunner in the Academy’s Best Foreign Language category.

Satoshi Kon at Film Society of Lincoln Center

To memorialize the late Anime auteur Satoshi Kon (1963-2010), last week the Film Society of Lincoln Center put on a one-night retrospective featuring his first film, Perfect Blue (1998), and last (released) film Paprika (2006). The timing of something like this is never good per se, however, the two films exhibited on this night could not be more topical right now.

Specialty Box Office: ‘Black Swan’ Tippy Toes Around Studio Pics

In the past few weeks, 3D releases have inundated the studio market. Disney’s Tron: Legacy took in 82% of its $43.6 million gross from 3D showings. But the recent buzz around specialty titles like “Black Swan,” and “The King’s Speech” has delivered quite a compelling argument for the viability of smaller budgets. Even studio pic “The Fighter” is relatively low-budget compared to other studio productions.

The King’s Speech Leads Golden Globe Noms Plus Jeers and Cheers

The Golden Globes award noms (a.k.a the "friendly" awards) have been unveiled and The King’s Speech leads with seven nominations while The Fighter and The Social Network following close behind with six noms each. The Comedy or Musical categories remind us why the show is more of a popularity contest than anything else, but knowing that we can still have contempt for the whole thing, we'll end up half-watching anyways when it airs next month.

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